County files motion for discovery in Festival gun suit
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
An upcoming hearing in The Festival at Sandpoint weapons ban lawsuit is seeing a new date, as legal counsel for the city accepted Bonner County’s …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
An upcoming hearing in The Festival at Sandpoint weapons ban lawsuit is seeing a new date, as legal counsel for the city accepted Bonner County’s …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
Kootenai County District Court Judge Lansing L. Haynes denied a motion Feb. 25 from Bonner County to stay its lawsuit against the city of Sandpoint, …
By Lyndsie Kiebert and Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Bonner County commissioners voted for a “limited release of information” in response to a public records request from the Reader regarding legal …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
The first time Ali Baranski experienced The Festival at Sandpoint, much less Sandpoint itself, she was crossing the Long Bridge to attend a Michael Franti …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
A status conference in the lawsuit between Bonner County and Sandpoint regarding the Festival at Sandpoint weapons ban was postponed Nov. 26 because the judge …
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
There appears to be forward movement in the lawsuit over The Festival at Sandpoint’s weapons ban, as a status conference between legal counsel representing plaintiff …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s official. Bonner County filed a complaint Sept. 18 in District Court against the city of Sandpoint, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief in the matter …
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